We're beginning a new round of testing for MediaMonkey 4. This is a major release that adds a lot of new functionality (feature walkthrough to come later this weekend) along with quite a few improvements and fixes.

The most recent v4 build will always be in the last post in this thread. To be notified of future builds, just subscribe to the thread.

During the pre-release testing period, we're going to post official Alpha, Beta, and Release Candidate builds, along with informal Developer builds:

Alpha builds are feature incomplete, and have undergone limited testing. They're for the adventurous among you.
Beta builds are near feature complete and have undergone more thorough testing, but along with many known issues, still have their fair share unknown issues.
Release candidates are feature complete, and well-tested, and should have all issues categorized as 'immediate or urgent' resolved, and have few unknown issues.
Developer builds are used internally for testing and whose stability hasn't been verified. They are shared with hardcore testers so that there aren't long gaps between formal Alpha / Beta / RC builds.

With that said, here's our first MediaMonkey 4 Alpha build. Before you rush into downloading it, remember that it's pre-release software and contains a variety of changes that have not been thoroughly tested. The software is being provided for feedback and testing purposes -- please backup your data to protect against data loss.

Test Notes:

-If you have a MediaMonkey 3 Gold license, it will not activate the Gold functionality in version 4 (a lifetime license will, though)
-The database format for version 4 is different than for version 3. When you install version 4, a new DB will be created, and your old one preserved for use with MediaMonkey 3. If you make changes in one DB, they will not be reflected in the other.
-Scripts / Addons may not be compatible with version 4, nor will they be automatically migrated from your V3 setup.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Enjoy!
-The MediaMonkey Team

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Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Enjoy!
-The MediaMonkey Team

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Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's a new Developer build of MediaMonkey 4. It includes another ~40 fixes, including significant cleanup to the tabs implementation (hint: try disabling View > Main Menu). Also, many strings have been updated, so we'll soon be ready to begin localization. Let us know what you think.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's a new build of MediaMonkey 4. It includes another ~40 fixes, including significant cleanup to the strings, tabs, and image handling (we've also included a couple of regressions in that area ). Let us know what you think.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's a new build of MediaMonkey 4. It includes another ~40 fixes in a variety of areas. Note that we had to remove the Open in New Tab function from the root nodes, because it introduced a variety of other problems. You can still use the middle mouse button to open a new node. Let us know what you think.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's a new build of MediaMonkey 4. It includes another ~50 fixes, and thanks to the efforts of Gege, Albert, Reika, Zemeo, Lukasz, and Pham, localized versions of the UI are available in Portuguese, Japanese, French (preceding are bundled with the installer), Chinese(traditional), Polish and Vietnamese.

In addition, the Last.fm scrobbler has been updated for MM 4 to version 1.0.2.24.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's beta 1 of MediaMonkey 4--beta1 signifying that it's pretty much functionally complete though there are plenty more bugs to quash. It includes another ~25 fixes, including a fair number of stability improvements + a feature that many of you have asked for a long time: Portable mode. Also, we've made some changes to translation--now any language can be downloaded directly via the installer. Special thanks to Fraxav, Igor, Onkel Enno, and Juuso who completed 4.0 translations for Italian, Ukrainian, German, and Finnish.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's a new build with about 10 fixes, but they're pretty significant so it's worth upgrading. There are major scanning performance improvements, support for IOS 4.3 and the iPad 2 (not well tested), fixes to the non-English installer problems, update to skins (thanks to nohitter and DreadM), among others.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's a new build with about 20 fixes, and corrections to any outstanding string errors (so that translators can finalize translations). Special thanks to UI and Pablo for the Dutch and Spanish translations.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Another build, another 35 fixes, including fixes to some of the glaring issues re. MediaMonkey portable. Also, special thanks to translators who've updated strings so that the installer is now fully localized (German, French, Slovakian, Portuguese, Portugues Brazil, Japanese, Spanish).

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's a new Dev build--we wanted to get it out quickly because of the really annoying collapsed columns bug in the last build (bug #7586). If you delete and recreate all your video thumbnails, you should find that this build also gives a performance boost in AA views. It also includes another ~15 fixes (but includes an annoyance--vitreous skin is missing stars in the player, so just switch skins).

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.

Here's a new Dev build--it includes another ~30 fixes, including more fixes to portable mode, UPnP issues, the tracklist, and localization. Special thanks to translators who've updated the Chinese, Dutch, and Italian for this build.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions:
-When prompted for an install directory, choose a new directory such as /Program Files/MediaMonkey4/ so as to preserve your existing MediaMonkey installation.
-When prompted for path to shortcuts, choose something like 'MediaMonkey 4' so that you'll have shortcuts to both versions of MediaMonkey in your Start folder.
-To test video encoding functionality (for formats other than WMV) or to play video formats that aren't working on your machine, you can install the MediaMonkey Codec Pack, available separately.